Posted on 06/28/2013 12:23:43 AM PDT by neverdem
The ring was not used to fight Sauron, in fact when the ring was used, it didn’t have good results. It attracted the Nasgul. Sam used the ring once or twice to good effect when it made him invisible to the orcs.
What defeated Sauron was Sam’s courage and steadfastness and Golem’s greed, which was the influence of the ring, itself. But the ring had to be destroyed, not used.
Rather, the republic is not dead.
Among the few useful things that the federal government used to do was enforce the fugitive slave law, and we are doubtless all glad that that power has been withdrawn.
No one wants it.
It was used correctly... when it went into the fire of Mt. Doom.
It also helped save Frodo from Boromir, and saved Sam from being discovered after Frodo had been bitten by the Shelob. Frodo and Sam had to take it off afterwards.
Agree completely that used incorrectly it caused problem, as at Weathertop.
A majority in one state, or in a few states is not sufficient.
If you could scrape together enough for a constitutional amendment, then why not scrape it together to fix what is wrong, rather than for seccession.
“I guess the abolitionists were racist then”
Many or most were racists. Like Lincoln, they didn’t believe in slavery but they also didn’t believe in equality of blacks. Even Lincoln hated the idea of freed slaves in Illinois or marrying of white women or of equal status such as in voting.
If you really want to discover a white racist ask them if a black man can marry their daughter. Even today I find massive racism in liberals and conservatives when that question is asked.
“while the other side was fighting to preserve the union, and prevent the spread of slavery”
Funny thing you say since Lincoln said in his inaugural address that he did not seek to end slavery. So, who started the war to end slavery? Hell, I thought everyone claims the South started the war by firing on Ft Sumter. So, who in the North started a war to end slavery?
I know they teach that in public schools, but it is just liberal revisionist history.
“Lincoln’s government wasn’t evil and didn’t act with evil intent.”
Really? Violating all kinds of civil rights is not evil? I guess then we won’t be hearing you call Obama or anyone else evil.
Lincoln knew that he didn’t have the Constitutional authority to end slavery, but some Southern firebrands thought he was going to do so anyway.
A good movie; a parable for our times, when so many are willing to trample on the Constitution.
Clearly you have not read the book in its entirety.
Oh, I have, several times, with many studies and college courses (Graduate of Evangel College, now Evangel University) in the various subjects.
Sadly, a backslider in faith though.
Or at least they pretended that they could read his mind.
Lincoln was very plain in the runup to the election: He had no authority, much less intent, to interfere with it in the various states, but did have the intent, and the authority to interfere with it in the territories.
Aside from the causes pretended by the fire eaters, the real cause was slavery in the territories. Republicans were against it, the various elements of the Democratic Party was for it, a perfect symmetry, and based on fact, not reading the knobs on various candidates heads.
In that case, your assertion seems rather odd in light of the themes of that book, and the stated remarks of the author in his published letters. (Letter #66 comes to mind, for instance).
Sauron was defeated using the ring, just not the way that Sauron would have used the ring.
Gollum was key to its destruction, and his fallen and corrupted nature was key to his role in the destruction of the ring.
Oft evil will shall evil mar.
Tolkien’s views on his own works change over time, or perhaps with the person to whom he writes.
Letter 320 describes how Galadriel sinned, and was forgiven.
Letter 353 has her sinless, erring only in selection of her time to leave Valinor.
In like manner, he initially erred in the plural of Dwarf (errorneously Dwarves rather than the correct Dwarfs) and later decided that he meant to do it that way, as a plural of Dwarrows.
He wrote, and rewrote, as can be seen by the various states of Unfinished Tales, or the variations of his Silmarillion as time went on.
In some ways he was a bit of a crank. Told a ripping good yarn though!
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